Quotes About Cultural

According to an analysis done by Swift Key, Canada uses the poop emoji more than any other country. Hearts are number one in France, even beating the standard smiley and Australia leads the world in alcohol and drug related emojis

Two Chinese people named Mr. and Mrs. Wong were married and had a child. They asked the doctor if they could see their newborn. A nurse brought over their baby, but it was a white baby. The two of them said, "Hey, that's not our baby! That's a white baby. We are Chinese and two Wongs definitely don't make a white.

Q: What do you call an Italian with his hands in his pocket? A: Mute.

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.

How many of you think it is time for American to stop pretending we are not Christian? If there's people in King, North Carolina who don't like that, there's lots of places you can move to.

I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Board, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.

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It was so vehement, and prolific. Every second word was either Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch. For people who aren't familiar with these words, I should explain. Sau, of course, refers to pigs. In the case of Saumensch, it serves to castigate, berate or plain humiliate a female. Saukerl (pronounced 'saukairl') is for a male.

Arschloch podría traducirse por imbécil, y no distingue entre el femenino y el masculino. Uno simplemente lo es.

You know, most of this feminism business was nothing more than white American women telling non-white women what to do and how to do it, with this patronizing if-you-become-just-like-me-you'll-be-free bullshit

Albert Einstein wrote from Berlin to the French writer and pacifist, Romain Rolland: 'When posterity recounts the achievements of Europe, shall we let men say that three centuries of painstaking cultural effort carried us no farther than from religious fanaticism to the insanity of nationalism? In both camps today even scholars behave as though eight months ago they suddenly lost their heads.' ***

Foreigners only see what they want to see. Earlier it was snake charmers and sadhus, now it is the superpower things, the Bazaar Raj.

Nonetheless, phobia about Friday the thirteenth is widespread.

In a sense, the advances of modern medicine have given us two revolutions: we've undergone a biological transformation of the course of our lives and also a cultural transformation of how we think about that course.

At the Serima Mission, in Victoria Province, I am shown around by an enchantingly pretty African nun called Sister Balbina...She cannot be more than 25, and has the most delightful figure. How poignant that she should have dedicated her life in this way. When we come to the bell tower, I ask her to climb up the ladder in front of me.It was rather a caddish request, I suppose, but I had often wondered. Black petticoats and pink knickers. To think I had to come all this way to find out.

Dutch isn't easy for the outsider to learn, because it's spoken from the back of the throat at the trigger spot for the gag reflex.

If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.

La [G]uerra [de Independencia] supuso para España la pérdida de una generación completa de desarrollo cultural y económico. Aunque los españoles se defendieron con valor, el ataque infligido por Francia fue brutal y el coste para España, elevadísimo.

The process of cultural change is a long and difficult one.